CaptionMeNow Makes Searching Multimedia Content Easier

Published: Jun 23, 2007

Captioned conversation can help improve communication when audio is insufficient, due to the presence of a noisy environment. CaptionMeNow software was developed by IBM to create a text-based transcription of multimedia information found on the Web.

Without the transcribed text from a video or lecture, much of the multimedia content found on the Web cannot be searched, indexed, mined or translated. It can also be difficult to hear clearly and even violates accessibility standards.

Automated technologies provide the bulk of the solution, supplemented by human editing. IBM can also leverage the CaptionMeNow outputs for other solutions, referred to as TransformMeNow. With CaptionMeNow buttons, users can make use of captioning solutions that are more cost-effective than the current approaches predicated entirely on manual labor of highly trained stenographers. TransformMeNow offers additional features that aid in translation and summarization of an audio file and enable a user to easily request a caption in Spanish for an English video.

CaptionMeNow screenprint

Source: IBM

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